Assoc. Professor of Real Estate Economics University of Uppsala

 

Research areas

My research areas are Real Estate, Housing and Urban Economics. In particular I study (1) property valuation, (2) property assessment, (3) hedonic estimation, (4) property investment performance, (5) dynamics in the office property market, (6) residential rent control and (7) internal rent-setting. My work is empirical and predominantly addresses the market for income property.

My papers have appeared in journals such as Real Estate Economics and Urban Studies.

Background

My educational background includes an MSc in Land Surveying and a PhD in Real Estate Economics from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (KTH).  I have been a full-time teacher in Real Estate programs at the under-graduate and graduate level for more than twenty years at KTH and the University of Gävle.  At both these schools I have been responsible for the Real Estate programs. 

For a three-year period I held a fulltime position as chair of the Department of Business at the University of Gävle (2006—2009).  During these three years I was a member of the executive committee of the university. 

I am an experienced real estate valuer.  I worked full-time as a fee appraiser at DTZ during a one-year break in my academic career and for additional years on a part-time basis. For one year I was the Director of the Income property appraisal department (part-time) in the largest Swedish appraisal company, NAI Svefa.

I was commissioned by The Swedish National Agency for Higher Education to evaluate a number of academic programs at other universities (2009).  I belong to a group of researchers at Uppsala University that evaluates The Swedish National Audit Office (2010).  I am a member of evaluation panel nr 8, "The built environment", at The Swedish Research Council Formas (2010).